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Nathan Brooker writes about UK and international property markets for the FT Weekend.

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  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    House & Home
    The year the UK housing market defied gravity

    But there are reasons to believe that the ‘mini boom’ will not survive into 2021

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Prime property
    Hot property: Christmas escapes

    From a Grade II*-listed Elizabethan property in the UK to a ski resort in the French Alps

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Residential property
    England’s cladding crisis creates 2m ‘mortgage prisoners’

    Many flats left effectively unsellable as government struggles with aftermath of Grenfell disaster

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Special ReportRisk Management: Property
    Property offers ready shelter for criminal wealth

    Some argue that a cultural shift needs to take place in the property industry, akin to that which has been occurring at financial institutions

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    House & Home
    How our cities changed when the tourists stopped coming

    FT correspondents report on the residents reclaiming their home towns

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    European prime property
    Hot property: Italy’s Ligurian coast

    From a modern eco-friendly house to a Liberty-style villa

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    European prime property
    Hot Property: Provence toujours

    From a bastide with a greenhouse to a château with a vineyard

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    Television
    BingeWatch — This Country combines sharp comedy with pointed social comment

    The BBC mockumentary follows two cousins in a stagnating English village

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Thomas Keneally’s The Dickens Boy — an engrossing and transporting read

    A retelling of the plight of Charles Dickens’s sons in Australia

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  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    Prime property
    Hot property: English country houses

    From a Georgian farmhouse with an orangery in Oxfordshire to a three-storey house near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Bunker by Bradley Garrett — a look at the world of preppers

    How fears of disaster have created a multi-billion-dollar doom industry

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Prime property
    Homes for sale now: for celebrating summer

    From a farmhouse in Italy with picturesque gardens to a villa in France that would make a great setting for family reunions

  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    Prime property
    What next for Santorini's property market?

    Holiday rental investors hope to save summer season as tourists return

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Prime property
    To buy now: homes converted from workplaces

    From a brewery in London to a terracotta factory in Tuscany

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Menswear
    Savile Row tailor looks to lend some swagger to WFH

    With suits out of favour for now, Richard James is launching a new athleisure line

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Prime property
    Is now the right time to move to the country?

    Life in packed, polluted and pandemic-ridden cities has pushed many to dream of the rural life

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    Should I move to the countryside?

    Join our live discussion with FT columnist Luke Edward Hall and buying agent Mark Parkinson at 12 noon on Friday May 29

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    UK property
    How to navigate the post-lockdown property market

    Sellers can market their homes and buyers can view them — but it’s logistically complex

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    UK property
    The Covid-19 shutdown is a blow for first-time buyers

    Young people will be hardest hit financially by the pandemic, says a new report

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    What will the UK property market look like after lockdown?

    Join our live discussion with buying agent Henry Pryor on Friday May 8 at 12 and 5pm UK time

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    Weekend long reads
    Uncovering London’s hidden property wealth

    New laws are combating money laundering in the capital’s luxury homes market

  • Friday, 13 March, 2020
    UK property taxation
    The problem with the new stamp-duty premium for overseas buyers

    Intended to deter foreign purchasers and bring down prices, it could do the opposite

  • Friday, 21 February, 2020
    House & Home
    London’s property market has bigger problems than Airbnb

    The capital’s residents are relaxed about the rise of holiday rentals

  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    UK house prices
    The London property market in 2020 — who will be the winners and losers?

    Since the UK election, excitement has been palpable. But there are still turbulent times ahead

  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2020
    House & Home
    Footballers’ lives: how players choose a property

    Privacy, a pool and ‘all the toys’ are top of the list of must-haves

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